I love making music covers, and I wanted to make something unique for the "TIME TRIPPER" Doom mod (https://msx.horse/tt/index.html), given it has music in different formats. So I decided to spend the past week or so ripping out Dragon Quest soundbanks and imagining a crossover between that series and the vast works of Emma Essex. I decided to use QSound in Furnace, since it can fit all of the tracker files' channels.
#Dragon QueSound (Dragon Quest Soundbanks in Capcom QSound) music covers
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Here's my first attempt, with only Dragon Quest 3's SNES bank.
Dragon Quests 2, 5, and 6
Dragon Quests 1, 4 & 8, and Rocket Slime
Dragon Quests 4, 9, and Rocket Slime
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Soundbanks from Dragon Quests 5, 8, and 9. The delays were the hardest part.
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Here's my first attempt, with only Dragon Quest 3's SNES bank.
Fixed some mastering and added sounds from BSDQ and DQ2.
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With the exception of the rap, sounds are from Dragon Quests 6-9 and Slime Mori Mori.
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With the exception of the rap, sounds are from Dragon Quests 6-9 and Slime Mori ...
Did a bit of remastering.
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Soundbanks from DQ1 (BS), 4, 8 & 9.
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Made some tuning changes to the organ and such. Also first time using kapi.bat, a custom ffmpeg batcher.
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Completed all the main songs of TIME TRIPPER! Vocals by msx. Soundbanks from DQ 4, 8, 9 & Rocket Slime.
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Made some tuning changes to the organ and such. Also first time using kapi.bat, ...
renamed file oops
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Results theme of TIME TRIPPER in DQ4 sounds.
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TIL about Audacity's envelope tool, which turned out to be a life-saver. Used stuff from DQ8-9 and Rocket Slime.
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Environmental noises with DQ4+9. Audacity did most of the work.
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Made one last version of the first episode theme, adding DQ4 sounds and turning down the pulses.
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ALL TRACKER SONGS DONE! Here's the time theme of TIME TRIPPER in DQ2, 6, 8, and Rocket Slime soundbanks (barring the two sentence vocals). Thank you Emma Essex for such a wild journey!
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Forgot to mention: all of the Dragon Quest 4 sounds are from the NDS remake. I can't find the PSFs from the PSX version.
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Changed some instruments I was unhappy with.
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I decided to cave in and use the Roland Sound Canvas because Dragon Quests X & 11 use General MIDI. Gonna make some fixes to previous songs with this new knowledge.
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Added 808s from the SC-88Pro's library - the same one that DQ11 uses for its MIDI music. More to come later.
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More edits. Thank you Sound Canvas.
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One more update, this time with a new bass I arranged from DQ5's library.
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More edits. Thank you Sound Canvas.
Plus I learned that there was some panned percussion I missed for “dark halls rmx”!
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Ok, it turns out that Sugiyama used a Roland JV-2080 for composing, and THEN his stuff was turned into MIDI. So it turns out I have different options for playback. I got the SC-88Pro info from ChatGPT. Oh well. SC-55 with 88Pro will work for me, I guess.
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Fixed a pitch error in the middle.
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From now on, the previous version is the "loop version", while this one has an ending.
Also shortened this to be more accurate to the album release.
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Fixed ending tuning.